This Week - Sep 27, 2013

With management comes administration, but administration is not the essence of your job. Your job is to clear the way for your team, and administration is just another thing you’re clearing from their path. Yes, it’s something you have to do, but it should absolutely not be your focus. Your team is your focus.

— Your Boss Works for You (Fred Beecher)

When he jerked the car into park, I knew we were home. It was then I realized he was just giving me a ride, to the mountains and back, as a parting gift — my severance pay.

— Scenes From A Breakup: Part II (Kaitlyn Wilde)

There is another worry somewhere on the horizon, though. And that is whether Lisa, now happily planted on American soil, will maintain the Chinese discipline herself. It seems entirely possible that, ten years hence, her purchasing habits will have veered sharply toward mine, rather than vice-versa.

— Do I Really Want All This Stuff? (Paul Petruccelli)